Psalms 120:2

arrogant eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Don’t deliver me over to the desire of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen up against me, such as breathe out cruelty.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness.

For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

The words of a gossip are like dainty morsels: they go down into a person’s innermost parts.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

If an unrighteous witness rises up against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing,

“Don’t keep talking so exceedingly proudly. Don’t let arrogance come out of your mouth, for Yahweh is a God of knowledge. By him actions are weighed.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.

You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dog.

Make your face to shine on your servant. Save me in your loving kindness.

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

Turn again, we beg you, God of Armies. Look down from heaven, and see, and visit this vine,

Relent, Yahweh! How long? Have compassion on your servants!

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

A false balance is an abomination to Yahweh, but accurate weights are his delight.

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

Heal me, O Yahweh, and I will be healed. Save me, and I will be saved; for you are my praise.

He said to me, “Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity, and who give wicked counsel in this city;

But don’t look down on your brother in the day of his disaster, and don’t rejoice over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction. Don’t speak proudly in the day of distress.

“Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake.

They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.

David said to Saul, “Why do you listen to men’s words, saying, ‘Behold, David seeks to harm you?’

Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, “Who is David? Who is the son of Jesse? There are many servants who break away from their masters these days.

In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.

He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?

Micaiah said, “As Yahweh lives, I will say what my God says.”

His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

Be it known now to the king that if this city is built and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful to the kings.

It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins. Also they have power over our bodies and over our livestock, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?

Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

May Yahweh cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

Consider my enemies, for they are many. They hate me with cruel hatred.

in whose hands is wickedness, their right hand is full of bribes.

Let the lying lips be mute, which speak against the righteous insolently, with pride and contempt.

Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

Unrighteous witnesses rise up. They ask me about things that I don’t know about.

For they don’t speak peace, but they devise deceitful words against those who are quiet in the land.

“You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

But the king shall rejoice in God. Everyone who swears by him will praise him, for the mouth of those who speak lies shall be silenced.

He who practices deceit won’t dwell within my house. He who speaks falsehood won’t be established before my eyes.

for they have opened the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit against me. They have spoken to me with a lying tongue.

a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

Truth’s lips will be established forever, but a lying tongue is only momentary.

Lying lips are an abomination to Yahweh, but those who do the truth are his delight.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.

But let him who glories glory in this, that he has understanding, and knows me, that I am Yahweh who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness in the earth, for I delight in these things,” says Yahweh.

Then they said, “Come! Let’s devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law won’t perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let’s strike him with the tongue, and let’s not give heed to any of his words.”

Then Jeremiah said, “That is false! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he didn’t listen to him; so Irijah seized Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

You have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to kill the souls who should not die, and to save the souls alive who should not live, by your lying to my people who listen to lies.’

Because with lies you have grieved the heart of the righteous, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, and be saved alive.

After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up, and will become strong, with a small people.

They return, but not to the Most High. They are like a faulty bow. Their princes will fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue. This will be their derision in the land of Egypt.

Now the chief priests, the elders, and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

When they had come, they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and don’t defer to anyone; for you aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

Is it lawful for us to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?”

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

and set up false witnesses who said, “This man never stops speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the law.

After five days, the high priest, Ananias, came down with certain elders and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Paul.

For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,

Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are servants of God’s service, continually doing this very thing.

But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Therefore we know no one after the flesh from now on. Even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,

But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”